Good afternoon and welcome to our live coverage of First Minister's Questions on Tuesday 23 June. John Swinney will face ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest BAE Systems PLC news every morning. Ministers have proposed increasing the threshold by which e-petitions have a chance of generating a ...

LONDON — The British parliament’s controversial backbench groups have been back in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. Now some MPs want to tighten the rules that govern them. A new report from ...

A photograph by Yuri Zhitlukhin I came across while searching for images of Soviet classrooms of the post-Bolshevik Revolution period shows a teacher playing the flute to her students in a ...

In British-style parliamentary systems, a backbencher is a member of parliament who doesn’t hold government office and isn’t a spokesperson of the opposition. They’re essentially a rank and file ...